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They have worked to improve the city of Newark in their resilience to server storms.

The communities of New Jersey was not ready for this powerful stomr that  knocked power out widespread across the state. They were vulnerable to all things as no agency took the natural steps to protect its people who were hit by the storm. 

children were tested for lead poisoning and their was a correlation between those who had lead poisoning and those who were homeless or a victim to poverty.

charts like this only show how any are in poverty.  whats not shown is how these people and families got to this point and what the common theme is between them

A new 'switching site' was build to ensure less people would lose power in a disasterous storm like Hurricane Sandy.

this diagram represents poverty rates from 15 years ago.  this is the history of newarks poverty rates towards families children and more.  

The Jersey shore especially was vulnerable to a storm of this capcity, and showed how unprepared for the storm they were after the clouds settled. The boardwalk itself was obliterated and homes and roads were floodded. In New York, most train tranporttaion was halted as many of the lines had to undergo maintenance to bring it back to operating status.

this diagram shows how different age groups suffer from povert.  as the years in age grow larger, the higher the numbers in poverty.

this graph is a perfect representation of the affects any thing can have on communities.  this graph can be correlated with things like natural disasters and their would be an increase in numbers.